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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Newman
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John Henry Newman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1801
Born: February 21
Died: 1890
Died: August 11
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
John Henry Newman
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
John Henry Newman
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
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Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
John Henry Newman
Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm next, that they have no power whatever of resistance it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.
John Henry Newman
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
John Henry Newman
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
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